Mobile commerce is transforming the local advertising market, valued at $115 billion, as consumers increasingly use on-demand apps for local services on a daily, monthly, or annual basis. This emergence of the local on-demand economy (LODE) presents an opportunity to build apps that facilitate task completion for infrequently used categories like home services, pet services, and medical appointments. To succeed, LODE platforms and apps must focus on quick conversion rates from leads to customers through click-to-book and payment capabilities, a consistent user experience across devices, and facilitating the completion of tasks.
This is money VC $ was raised into LS - different from TAM, do we show both?
previous title: Tectonic Shift In Local – $6B Invested in LODE Since 201?*
Charles needs to articulate that pubs are already competing in food/ordering
Not only is this Greenfield but these tasks yield higher value per order. So while frequency goes down, value of service goes up. Also, simply expands portfolio of monetization across new task completion that consumers want.
Greenfield is in the later stages of this chart?
Think about tomorrow adding to long tail categories because these are harder for an app to come disintermediate
Focus on Task Completion Across Occasional-use Verticals
To Remain a Popular Destination, Think Local On Demand (?)
For middle column, measured by how quickly you get off the app.
Three Obelisk approach?
Implement in a cohesive in-context way in order to keep your customer
API Ecosystem Powering Local Search & Commerce
Feature parity, disintermediation, need to add these on top of your core surface areas. Add or fall behind.
Surface areas we think about relative to UX. We are API evangelists, the ecosystem to pull this all together is derived by a lot of different partners and their APIs. Pingup is obviously booking, other key players. Cohesive UX for your customers. Players and content that create a winning solution.
Local Search Will Thrive via API-first Approach
This matures thru cooperating APIs
with a subtext of aggregation?
Nobody can develop alone, an ecosystem (add in examples? reference companies in food, zocdoc